A friend of mine came to town this afternoon and was put up at a rarely cleaned urine smelling half way house “hotel” courtesy of the quality talk show she is appearing on tomorrow.  (She’s taping her show this week – next week they are doing a story on serial killers… who will probably find it to be very home like at that hotel property.)

Thankfully while eating at Fred’s last night, her calls were returned and she moved from her “Deluxe Room” at the Hotel Newton where she complained about hair all over her bathroom floor and they responded “What color was it?”

(Exhibit A taken with my camera phone will be posted here in the morning)
to a $700 room at the Doubletree. (Yes, I really said $700 and Doubletree in the same sentence, I don’t understand it either.)

 (Photo from the Doubletree Lexington Avenue website)
It may be $500 more a night than it should be but at least now she has clean sheets and when I arrive with bagels in the morning her feet will not have fallen off because of hungry critters in the middle of the night.